... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last| Contents| Next Issue 54 Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 Reviewed by John Newsinger On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted 'one of the most extraordinary messages' of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred 'to 1,274,166 Jews killed during 1942 at four death camps Lublin, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka'. The intercept was forwarded to Major Hugh Trevor-Roper, but ...

... Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis John Newsinger K en Livingstone's remarks about the Nazis and Zionism were, to say the least, ill-chosen and unwise. At a time when accusations of anti-Semitism are being used as a stick with which to beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an opportunity to attack, Livingstone unwittingly but still inexcusably provided them with one. With the exception of his assertion that Hitler's supposed descent into ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 12) September 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Post-war Nazi Networks and the United States The evidence, in short, suggests that while individuals like David, Chiappe and Ricord can rise and fall, the connection in Latin America between narcotics and para-legal repression is an old and enduring one. In its post-war phase it can be traced to the exfiltration to Latin America of wanted Nazi war criminals and their collaborators. Ricord himself, arriving in Paraguay via a Nazi escape route, had been one. (76) Originally arriving in Latin America thanks to networks like Die Spinne with the collaboration of ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 22) November 1991 Last| Contents| Next Issue 22 Ratlines: how the Vatican's Nazi networks betrayed Western intelligence to the Soviets Mark Aarons and John Loftus Heinemann, London, 1991, £16.99 Mark Aarons, author of Sanctuary! Nazi Fugitives in Australia, was largely responsible for convincing the Australian government to reopen their war crimes investigations; John Loftus, author of The Belarus Secret is a former attorney for the US Justice Department Office of Special Investigations who investigated the activities and war crimes of Byelorussian Nazi collaborators. In Ratlines they describe, in considerable detail, how the Vatican established a network for smuggling Nazi war criminals and East European collaborators ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 24) December 1992 Last| Contents| Next Issue 24 The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: 'Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant literature existed, based on wholly spurious 'facts' concerning the powerful Thule Society, the Nazi links with the East, and Hitler's occult initiation.' The chief target of this ...

... ...to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7,000 miles at subsonic speeds.' At this point Cook spills his coffee. The Legend Delving deeper, he is drawn into The Legend, the story that flying saucers were developed by the Nazis and taken over by the US after the war. There is plenty of information but much of it is contradictory. The lack of corroboration and hard evidence forces Cook to conclude: 'This stuff is unverifiable.' Another strand considers allegations that the B-2 bomber utilises an electrogravitic anti-gravity drive originally developed in the 50s under the code name Project ...

... , A Lie Too Far (see Lobster 25 p. 21 for details). Class War 60 (September '93) commented on the pamphlet's allegations that 'none of this is news to us; as long ago as 1985 Class War was temporarily expelled from Anti-Fascist Action after Gerry Gable, Searchlight' s editor, spread lies that we were Nazis.' Freedom (18 September) commented in its review of the pamphlet that 'Searchlight's links to the (secret) state are-- or should be-- well known'; and commented that Larry O'Hara had been 'the victim of a sustained, and even more absurd smear campaign over the past year or so'. Outlook ...

... XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War Michael Phayer Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, p/b, £15.99 Reviewed by John Newsinger In 1997, urged on by the US government, fourteen European countries together with Canada and Argentina, established comm-issions to investigate the involvement of their banks in the holding of assets looted by the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust. One particular sovereign state refused to have anything to do with this long overdue initiative: the Vatican. The legal action that resulted from this refusal is still working its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican ...

... with the International Standstill Agreement of 19 September 1931, whereby it was accepted that existing credits would be frozen, while interest payments continued. The Standstill Agreement was meant to be temporary but was renewed in early 1932 and every year thereafter until 1939, despite the unhappiness of many of those involved in the provision of credit to Germany. For Nazi German economic policy flew in the face of the liberal principles held by the City. Under the direction of Hjalmar Schacht at the Reichsbank the Germans introduced a complex system of controls over imports and the use of foreign exchange. Trade policy was founded more and more on barter agreements with neighbouring countries which provided food and raw materials in exchange ...

... America's Nazi Secret John Loftus Walterville, Oregon: Trineday, 2010, $24.95, p/b This a reprint of Loftus's earlier book The Belarus Secret Page 96 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 (Penguin 1983 in the UK), though with some passages edited out of the original apparently restored. These restored sections appear to be those in square brackets in the text, though Loftus doesn't seem to tell the reader this and I don't have the patience to check the entire text. Certainly some sections in square brackets are not in the 1983 edition For the general reader like me this is impossible to evaluate and I don't know anyone with the specialised knowledge required to review this book ...